{"id":228,"date":"2009-05-14T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2009-05-14T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T15:26:00","slug":"what-would-you-do-filtered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/what-would-you-do-filtered\/","title":{"rendered":"what would you do [filtered]"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is close-locked post since I don't want to discuss this publicly or with my whole flist, but I'd like some advice on how to handle this issue.\"\"<\/p>\n

As you probably know I had some major issues with my publisher over the original cover for my book, which had a woman on it and implied menage. This led to many m\/m readers overlooking it and lost sales. <\/p>\n

When they finally addressed the issue I got new version with the girl blacked out, because I was told they would have to re-do the cover completely and that was not an option they were prepared to do.<\/p>\n

Well they "fixed" another menage-y cover for another book, and that one seems to have been completely re-done replacing a woman's image with a man's torso. [see below for before and after….]<\/p>\n

What should I do? Should I ask for similar treatment? Should I question why I was told one thing and another author's book was given a better-executed and more attractive cover? Should I just shut up and move on and not work with this publisher again, given all the issues I"ve had with just this one book?<\/p>\n

I haven't been in publishing long enough to know whether this is worth mentioning, but it's a huge disappointment about the way it's been handled.<\/p>\n

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This is close-locked post since I don't want to discuss this publicly or with my whole flist, but I'd like some advice on how to handle this issue. As you probably know I had some major issues with my publisher over the original cover for my book, which had a woman on it and implied menage. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-3G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}